But that's the way it happened; you can't arrange your life to provide a consistent dramatic line, like a film script.

If you give me a dramatic line, that's what's going to be in the lead.

It was, he thought later, a good dramatic line.

There was no end to his supply of brilliant, dramatic lines.

The reaction of certain Montenegrin officials went along the similar dramatic lines.

If there's a choice between getting a laugh and keeping the dramatic line of a scene, we go for the latter.

By then I had roughly identified the movements and made notes on what would eventually seem the dramatic line.

Note the dramatic lines casting shadows on its sleek, white surface.

A Leonard novel rarely unfolds in a straight dramatic line.

It dawdles instead of heading in a direct dramatic line.